22230 2013-05-31 20:14:24 +0000 Incorrect error wording when forcing character encoding 2015-08-23 07:33:31 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator check HEAD All All RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.plam.cantech.bg P2 normal --- 1 ori dave.null mike plam www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 88527 0 ori 2013-05-31 20:14:24 +0000 When validating a page served with an HTTP header reporting an encoding of 'ascii', and a meta tag reporting an error of 'utf-8', warning W19 is shown: > The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (ascii) is different > from the value in the <meta> element (utf-8). I will use the value from the > HTTP header (ascii) for this validation. This is using the parameter charset=(detect+automatically) However, if an encoding is forced with the parameter charset=utf-8, the wording of W19 becomes confusing and incorrect: > The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (ascii) is different from > the value in the <meta> element (utf-8). I will use the value from the HTTP > header (utf-8) for this validation. The warning manages to report the HTTP header encoding as being both 'ascii' and 'utf-8'. The warning assumes that the 'used' encoding was determined according to the specification, and not forced by the validator. I assume W18 and W20 have the same problem. 122727 1 mike 2015-08-23 07:33:31 +0000 Use the current W3C HTML Checker https://validator.w3.org/nu/ instead.